Bayshore Drive is just a few miles from Oyster Creek (red marker with black square in middle)

2:35 p.m. Breaches in Ocean County dune lines

Ocean County Administrator Carl W. Block reported breaches in the dune line on Long Beach Island and in Ortley Beach. [...] Block said there are reports of water up to the roofs of cars on Long Beach Boulevard in Long Beach Township.

Ocean County, New Jersey is home to Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

Two hours for the center to reach..but on shore flow will continue for hours. High tide in the evening..8:30? 9:30 PM. Hope everyone can hang on..And if storm goes more south and west as the Gov of Virgina, Bob Mcdonald, says..then North Anna Nuclear Plant will be tested as well.

There are 104 nuclear reactors in the United States. If one of them lost both primary and backup power for even a matter of hours, it could lead to a meltdown and an airborne radioactive plume. See what could have happened if a reactor in your area had a severe nuclear accident on March 11, 2011.

While both Indian Point 2 and 3 are up and running, the picture is different in New Jersey. Salem 1 and Hope Creek are full power while Salem 2 and Oyster Creek are shut for refueling and maintenance. Joe Delmar, spokesman for PSEG Nuclear, said refueling operations were suspended Sunday at 6 p.m. and unnecessary workers were sent home.

The criteria for shutting down New Jersey’s plants are lower than those for Indian Point, which is on the Hudson River and sheltered in the Hudson River Valley. “We are required to shut down operations when there are sustained winds of 74 miles per hour for 15 minutes or more,” Delmar said.

“With regards to the Delaware River, we have to shut down if the river reaches 99.5 feet in depth. It is normally 89 feet at high tide, and our design basis is 120 feet, a level that would be reached during a Category 4 hurricane. The Delaware River level at high tide at 11:30 this morning was 93 feet.”

Salem and Indian Point, which use the adjacent rivers to provide billions of gallons of water daily to cool their generating system, also face issues as flood waters recede.

“You can imagine the amount of debris in the river as a result of flooding,” said the NRC’s Sheehan. “At Indian point 3 they had issues with debris that they had to watch for. There were tree trunks, leaves, and other large debris at the intake pipes.”

From that article: "In New Jersey, PSEG has an advantage in that two of the four nuclear plants are currently shut down for refueling. Hope Creek has four diesel generators, and only needs one of them operating to run its safety systems for a week. At Salem 1 & 2, each plant has three diesel generators, and there is enough fuel on hand to serve each generator for a week, said Delmar. “We have to test diesels on a routine basis.”
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Not a word about fuel pools. Why would you plan on having back up generators that can cool the reactors for a week, and not bother to think about how you would simultaneously cool the SFP, which can start to boil within a couple of days? It just doesn't make any sense.

basically they are relying on the statistical algorythmic "cross yer fingers and hope for the best"
they have a SERIOUS proplem with recruitment and they are understaffed.. thats why NRC central is closed..??

and they did this too!

USA cuts the budget for The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO)
Occupy the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) WTF??? WHY ARE WE CUTTING THE DNDO BUDGET BY 40%??? Shouldn’t we be INCREASING the detection of radiation in our country b/c there’s an ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan and the prevailing winds are in OUR direction?? It rains down in OUR crops, contaminates OUR food supply, and gets in OUR air and water!! Would someone please explain that to the people in charge!!! Never mind the fact that many of our own 104 aging nuclear power plants also leak and when they do the leaking is invisible. Shouldn’t we be spending MORE on monitoring all of this instead of cutting the budget by 40%?? In the middle of an ongoing nuclear disaster it seems really stupid to be slashing the radiation monitoring budget.

From your Chicago Trib article that you linked elsewhere, Arclight, "The mean river water level at the Salem-Hope Creek site was 89 feet and the site grade was about 102 feet. The highest river level ever recorded was 97.5 feet, Delmar said."

They are going to run, just like the 'inspectors' ran when FukU was taken out by an earthquake.

Take your choice; earthquake, tsunami, or EMF effect… all it takes is ONE natural or man made disaster and you wipe out a whole continent or the whole world.

So far, we have lucked out. We have only lost a few thousand square miles at a time.

With the next nuclear disaster, we may not be so lucky.

The US nuclear industry is BEGGING for a HUGE disaster.. by covering up the risks, reducing evacuation zones, lying 30 different ways to anyone who will listen to them, eliminating safety inspections for certifying grannie reactors that are worn out and obsolete and begging for bucks at the taxpayer piggie trough for the last 50 YEARS.

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